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Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry reading series at the Wild Detectives in Dallas. Curated by Dallas poet Logen Cure, the in-person show is the second Wednesday of every month in the Wild Detectives backyard. We love our podcast fans, so we release recordings of the live performances every month for y'all! On 5/14/25, we kicked off our 8th year with featured poet Robin Turner!Robin Turner's poems, prose poems, and flash fiction have appeared in numerous publications, among them Rattle, The Texas Observer, Rust & Moth, DMQ Review, One, and Bracken Magazine. Her work has been tucked inside little poetry houses in Pittsburgh, paired with photographs in a Deep Ellum art gallery, and transformed into tiny artist books for Lisa Huffaker's White Rock Zine Machine. Her chapbooks are Elegy with Clouds & (Kelsay Books) and bindweed & crow poison (Porkbelly Press). A longtime community teaching artist and sometime reader for Sugared Water, she lives near White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas.www.innermoonlightpoetry.com
We are proud to present this bonus episode of the Inner Moonlight podcast featuring our event for the Wild Detectives Eleventh Anniversary celebration on 4/20/25. We collaborated with storytelling event Talking Dirty After Dark for a super fun show we called Dirty Moonlight. You'll hear some of our favorite poets previously featured on Inner Moonlight alongside storytellers selected by Talking Dirty curator Raymond Butler. This show also includes a performance by Inner Moonlight curator Logen Cure. Happy anniversary to the Wild Detectives! Cheers to many more!Performers in this episode:1. Stephanie Grace Ceniza (storyteller)2. Jennifer Elise Wang (poet)3. Shawn Lee (storyteller)4. Aaron Glover (poet)5. Raymond Butler (storyteller, Talking Dirty curator)6. Victoria Lopez (storyteller)7. Lauren Kalstad (poet)8. Cam Barnes (storyteller)9. Logen Cure (poet, Inner Moonlight curator) www.thewilddetectives.comwww.talkingdirtyevents.comwww.innermoonlightpoetry.com
We are stoked to present this bonus episode of the Inner Moonlight podcast featuring our event for the Wild Detectives Tenth Anniversary celebration on 4/21/24. We collaborated with storytelling event Talking Dirty After Dark for a super fun show we called Dirty Moonlight. You'll hear superb poets previously featured on Inner Moonlight alongside storytellers selected by Talking Dirty curator Raymond Butler. This show also includes a poem by Inner Moonlight curator Logen Cure. Listeners be aware this episode includes colorful language and sensitive content. Happy anniversary to the Wild Detectives! Cheers to many more! Performers in this episode: 1. Tarfia Faizullah (poet) 2. Klia Brown (storyteller) 3. Emma Ramsey (poet) 4. Cameron Barnes (storyteller) 5. Afeefah Khazi-Syed (poet) 6. Raymond Butler (storyteller, Talking Dirty curator) 7. Lisa Huffaker (poet) 8. Deante Toombs (storyteller) 9. Logen Cure (poet, Inner Moonlight curator) www.thewilddetectives.com www.talkingdirtyevents.com www.innermoonlightpoetry.com
The second Wednesday of every month since 2018 (minus the hiatus due to the ongoing pandemic), Logen Cure has hosted the Inner Moonlight, a monthly poetry reading and open mic. Since December 2020, the reading has also been a podcast. This episode contains Inner Moonlight's Fifth Anniversary celebration from 5/10/2023, which also served as the kickoff event for the first ever Dallas Is Lit! literary festival. Inner Moonlight celebrated five years of literary magic with encore performances by an incredible lineup of 12 previously featured poets in the order in which they originally appeared: 1. Robin Myrick – April 2021 2. Joe Milazzo – May 2021 3. Shug Avery – December 2021 4. Matt Baker – January 2022 5. Alan Gann – March 2022 6. Kim Nall – April 2022 7. Chris George – May 2022 8. Ayesha Asad – June 2022 9. Alex Temblador – August 2022 10. James Davis – October 2022 11. Laura Neal – January 2023 12. Lauren Brazeal Garza – March 2023 Presented by The Writer's Garret https://writersgarret.org/ www.logencure.com/innermoonlight
Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for reading and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, guest host, Katy Dycus, interviews your regular host, Logen Cure, about her debut poetry collection, Welcome to Midland. Logen Cure is a queer poet and professor. She's an editor for Voicemail Poems. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her debut full-length poetry collection, Welcome to Midland, released from Deep Vellum Publishing in 2021. She lives in Texas. Learn more at www.logencure.com.
Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for reading and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to award-winning poet, Loretta Diane Walker. Loretta Diane Walker, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, is a Best of the Net Nominee and a nine-time Pushcart Nominee, won the 2021 William D. Barney Memorial Chapbook Contest sponsored by the Fort Worth Poetry Society wit the collection From the Cow's Eye and Other Poems, the 2016 Phyllis Wheatley Book Award for In This House and the 2011 Bluelight Press Book Award for Word Ghetto. Her work has appeared in various literary journals, magazines, and anthologies throughout the United States, Canada, India, Ireland, and the UK. She has published six collections of poetry. Her full-length manuscript, Day Begins When Darkness is In Full Bloom, (Bluelight Press) is scheduled for release in 2021. Loretta received a BME from Texas Tech University and earned a MA from The University of Texas of the Permian Basin. She teaches elementary music at Reagan Magnet School, Odessa, Texas.
Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for reading and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to poet and professor Lindsay Illich. Lindsay Illich is the author of Fingerspell (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), Rile & Heave (Texas Review Press, 2017), and Heteroglossia (Anchor & Plume, 2016). Rile & Heave won the Texas Review Press Breakthrough Prize in Poetry. She also co-authored Teach Living Poets (NCTE, 2021) with Melissa Smith. She teaches writing at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts.
Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for reading and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to award-winning poet Lauren Berry. Lauren Berry received a BA in Creative Writing from Florida State University and an MFA from the University of Houston where she won the Inprint Verlaine Prize and served as poetry editor for Gulf Coast. From 2009 to 2010, she held the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute. Her work has appeared in magazines such as Agni, Silk Road, The Adroit Journal, Denver Quarterly, and Iron Horse Literary Review. Terrance Hayes selected her first collection, The Lifting Dress (Penguin, 2011), to win the National Poetry Series prize. Her second collection, The Rented Altar, won the C&R Press Award in poetry (C&R Press, 2020) and the 2021 gold medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. She teaches AP English Literature at YES Prep Public Schools, a charter school that provides college preparatory education to Houston's most underserved communities. Additionally, Lauren leads poetry workshops for local non-profits, Inprint and Grackle and Grackle. Connect with her at poetlaurenberry.com
Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for reading and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to poet Paige Quiñones. Paige Quiñones is the author of The Best Prey, which received the 2020 Pleiades Press Lena Miles-Wever Todd Prize for Poetry. She has received awards and fellowships from the Center for Mexican-American Studies, the Academy of American Poets, and Inprint Houston. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Juked, Lambda Literary, Orion Magazine, Poetry Northwest, Quarterly West, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from the Ohio State University and is currently a PhD student in poetry at the University of Houston, where she teaches community workshops and is a writer at Writers in the Schools.
Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for reading and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to the incomparable Dallas poet Joe Milazzo! Joe Milazzo is the author of the novel Crepuscule W/ Nellie, two volumes of poetry — The Habiliments and Of All Places In This Place Of All Places — and several chapbooks, including the forthcoming homeopathy for the singularity. His writings have appeared in Black Clock, Black Warrior Review, BOMB, Prelude, Tammy, Texas Review and elsewhere. He is an Associate Editor for Southwest Review and the Founder/Editor-In-Chief of Surveyor Books. Joe lives and works in Dallas, TX, and his virtual location is http://www.joe-milazzo.com.
Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for reading and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to Dallas poet Robin Myrick. Robin Myrick is a writer and visual artist, and the author of I AM THIS STATE OF EMERGENCY, the debut title from Dallas indie press Surveyor Books. She holds an MFA in Writing and Critical Studies from California Institute of the Arts and has also studied in the Humanities-Aesthetic Studies doctoral program at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her work often engages the ephemeral or mediated moment, as expressed through film and television, portraiture and the rhetoric of identity, politics, consumerism and disaster. Robin has taught at St. Edward's University, UT Dallas, Collin College and other fine institutions, but currently makes her weekly hay in the wilds of higher education SEO and digital marketing.
Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for reading and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to novelist and poet, Rebecca Balcárcel. Rebecca Balcárcel's debut novel, THE OTHER HALF OF HAPPY is a Pura Belpré Honor Book and ALSC Notable Book that was named one of the Top Ten First Novels of 2019 by the American Library Association. Rebecca took her MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars. St. Mary's University published her book of poems, Palabras in Each Fist in 2009. Find her on YouTube as the Sixminutescholar. She loves popcorn, her kitty, and teaching her students at Tarrant County College as Associate Professor of English.
Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for reading and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to the multi-talented Katy Dycus! A native Fort Worth, Texan, Katy now works in Madrid, Spain. She writes for the anthropology journal Mammoth Trumpet and is a Wild Detectives contributor.
Inner Moonlight is the poetry reading series for the Wild Detectives in Dallas! Join us the second Wednesday of every month for poetry and conversation with one brilliant writer. In this episode, host Logen Cure talks to local poet Brittany Griffiths! Brittany Griffiths is a writer/editor/publisher from Dallas, Texas. She is the founder of Spontaneous Afflatus, an independent publishing house that specializes in poetry and short story collections. Brittany is also the editor and co-founder of Wavelength Magazine, a Dallas-based cultural arts magazine that focuses on film, art, literature, and music in North Texas. She published her debut collection of poems titled, Ebb & Flow, through Spontaneous Afflatus in October 2017. She currently works at the University of Texas at Arlington as the Library Publishing Specialist. NOTE: This episode released in January 2021, but was recorded in 2020. When Brittany and Logen say "next year," they mean 2021!
Inner Moonlight is back! We are the monthly reading series for the Wild Detectives and we have returned as a podcast! I'm your host, Logen Cure, and I'm stoked to bring you one writer an episode for poetry and conversation. My first guest is longtime friend, Dani Quesenberry. Dani Quesenberry is a poet residing somewhere in the woods of rural Georgia. By day, she works for an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization. By night, she writes poems exploring her childhood and struggles with queer identity in the rural South. She also names her plants and likes to report the location of cops on Waze.
Our hosts Logen Cure and I.S. Jones review their favs from our Winter 2018 issue! (Get caught up on Winter 2018 here: soundcloud.com/voicemailpoems/sets/voicemail-poems-fall-2017) This installment features poems by: Kirwyn Sutherland https://soundcloud.com/voicemailpoems/taunts-to-the-klan-by-kirwyn-sutherland zach blackwood https://soundcloud.com/voicemailpoems/whelp-after-aziza-barnes-by-zach-blackwood Sam Rush https://soundcloud.com/voicemailpoems/sonnet-for-trans-lifeline-february-2017-by-sam-rush Music by TrueKey. (@truekey). >> The deadline to submit to our Summer Issue is June 1st: http://voicemailpoems.org/call >> Help us made more of these by supporting us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/voicemailpoems >> Review us on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voicemail-poems-.org/id847081003
Our hosts Logen Cure and I.S. Jones review their favs from our Fall 2017 issue! (Get caught up on Fall 2017 here: https://soundcloud.com/voicemailpoems/sets/voicemail-poems-fall-2017) This installment features poems by Kimiko Hirota, Austin Beaton, and Kai River Blevins. Music by TrueKey. (@truekey). >> The deadline to submit to our Winter Issue is December 1st: http://voicemailpoems.org/call >> Help us made more of these by supporting us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/voicemailpoems >> Review us on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voicemail-poems-.org/id847081003
Our hosts Logen Cure and I.S. Jones review their favs from our Summer 2017 issue! (Get caught up on Summer 2017 here: soundcloud.com/voicemailpoems/sets/voicemail-poems-summer-2017) This installment features poems by Mercedes Lucero, Daniel Barnum, and Bee Ulrich. Music by TrueKey. (@truekey). >> The deadline to submit to our Fall Issue is September 1st: http://voicemailpoems.org/call >> Help us made more of these by supporting us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/voicemailpoems >> Review us on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voicemailpoems/id847081003
This week’s poems: >> “The Scenic Rout” by Nicole Jean Turner >> “thank you for supporting your local counseling and psychological services” by Chelsea Sieg >> “In Which Rachel Changes the Oil” by Em Taylor >> “Afterwards” by EJ Schoenborn >> “We Named the Dog Indiana” by Skyler Reed Hosted by Logen Cure! Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please contribute to our project: >> http://patreon.com/voicemailpoems Subscribe via iTunes: >> https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voicemailpoems/id847081003
This week’s poems: >> “the burning of knight von hohenberg with his servant before the walls of Zürich, for sodomy, 1482″ by Bee Ulrich >> “In a Dark Room, the Universe Was Calling Me” by Melissa Cerrillo >> “For My Grandmother, Who Kept His Last Name" by Chrissy Martin >> “Part Waters (Two of Cups)" by Daniel Barnum >> “Tankman" by Kyle Liang Hosted by Logen Cure! Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please contribute to our project: >> http://patreon.com/voicemailpoems Subscribe via iTunes: >> https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voicemailpoems/id847081003
This week’s poems: >> “New Orleans Poem” by Zoë Blair-Schlagenhauf >> "Frozen" by Elliott Ocean >> “Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful” by Mercedes Lucero >> “The summer of mourning” by TaneshaNicole >> “post talk” by alexis briscuso Hosted by Logen Cure! Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please contribute to our project: >> http://patreon.com/voicemailpoems Subscribe via iTunes: >> https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voicemailpoems/id847081003
This week’s poems: >> “I Am Nothing I Thought I'd Ever Be By Now" by Paulie Lipman >> “Demeter Speaks to Persephone After her Rape" by Melissa Rose >> “Untitled” by Indiana Pehlivanova >> “I Was Forcibly Removed from the Holy Land” by Alex McDonald >> “Lakes Hills Estates” by Ryan Nakano Hosted by Logen Cure! Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please contribute to our project: >> http://patreon.com/voicemailpoems Subscribe via iTunes: >> https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voicemailpoems/id847081003
Our hosts Logen Cure and Alexis Smithers review their favs from our Spring 2017 issue! (Get caught up on Spring 2017 here: https://soundcloud.com/voicemailpoems/sets/voicemail-poems-spring-2017) This installment features poems by Catherine Weiss, Jessie Lynn McMains, and Kit Travers. Music by TrueKey. (@truekey). >> The deadline to submit to our Summer Issue is June 15: http://voicemailpoems.org/call >> Support us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/voicemailpoems >> Review us on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voicemailpoems/id847081003 ~ About the Poets ~ >> Catherine Weiss lives in Western MA with her husband, two dogs, and a cat. Her poetry has also been published in Gravel Mag and Jersey Devil Press. Catherine is the founder and editor-in-chief of the podcast and lit mag Slamchop. Learn more at www.catherineweiss.com. >> Jessie Lynn McMains (aka Rust Belt Jessie) is the Poet Laureate of Racine, Wisconsin. They publish their prose and poetry in their own zines and their work has also appeared in New Pop Lit, The Rain, Rising Phoenix Review and others. You can visit their website at recklesschants.net >> Kit Travers lives in Philadelphia with his two houseplants, Edgar and Leo, surrounded by books. He works in medical publishing by day and scribbles poetry and short fictions by night. His most recent prose can be found in Bedfellows. He makes a fairly decent curry. He can be found on instagram: @ktravesty
This week’s poems: “GAY INCANTATIONS” by Billy-Ray Belcourt “Exit Speech For Michelle: Last Supper At The White House” by Kelly Williams “model 3.5” by Catherine Weiss “In Which I am the Ouroboros” by Dorothy McGinnis “Peine Forte et Dure” (For the Women Who Love Giles Corey) by Caitlyn Gilvary Davidheiser Hosted by Logen Cure! Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please contribute to our project: http://patreon.com/voicemailpoems Subscribe via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voicemailpoems/id847081003
This week’s poems: "Syracuse, Lullaby, V. 1" by Alexa Doran "Dancefloor/Sanctuary/Office/Bedroom" by Kay Kassirer "Exeunt" by Jessie Lynn McMains "honey is a verb" by Isobel O'Hare "Untitled" by Meron Afutu Hosted by Logen Cure! Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please contribute to our project: patreon.com/voicemailpoems Subscribe via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voicemailpoems/id847081003
Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please contribute to our project: patreon.com/voicemailpoems This week’s poems: "POSSESSED BY CAITLYN JENNER’S GHOST / I NEED TO LEARN TO TAKE A JOKE" by Jo Gehringer "WHY IS EVERYONE PARTYING?" by Luis Neer "sun models" by Jude Moore "Jesus is as good a replacement for crack as any, I guess" by Kit Travers "Sally In Paris (for Sally Hemings, 1773 – 1835)" by Evelyna Ekoko-Kay Hosted by Logen Cure! Subscribe via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voicemailpoems/id847081003
This week's poems: "My therapist thinks my name is Alex" by Alec Balasko" "Origin" by Jacqueline T. Nkhonjera "autogynephilia is the lie they made up to trick trans girls ..." by Penelope Jeanne Brannen "the thing about bears" by Troy Kody Cunio "february 17th / shoutout to gravity" by Annabelle Goll Hosted by Logen Cure! >> Thank you to our Patreon supporters! Please contribute to our project: http://patreon.com/voicemailpoems >> Review us on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voice…oems/id847081003 >> More at http://voicemailpoems.org
Voicemail Poems contributor Allyson Whipple joins host Logen Cure for the Winter 2017 episode of our podcast! This installment features poems by Jasmine Dillavou and Chris Rife, as well as an interview with Allyson. Music by TrueKey. (@truekey). >> The deadline to submit to our Spring Issue is March 15: voicemailpoems.org/call >> Support us on Patreon! patreon.com/voicemailpoems >> Review us on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voice…oems/id847081003 More About the Poets: >> Jasmine Dillavou received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual and Performing Arts from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She has shown work in numerous exhibitions including the Student Show, X. presented at The Gallery of Contemporary Art. She was also the curator for the Spring Zine and Handmade Book Show in 2016. Her passions lie in documenting the personal and quiet experience of mixed-Latinas. Learn more on Facebook at Art by Jasmine Dillavou. >> Chris Rife is an aspiring human being. A semi-finalist for the 2016 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award, he is a writer and performer based in Chicago. His work has been published in Denver Quarterly, Hobart, Ghost Ocean, CAP, and other places. Learn more at http://chrisrifewrites.tumblr.com/ >> Allyson Whipple is the author of two chapbooks, We're Smaller Than We Think We Are (Finishing Line Press 2013) and Come Into the World Like That (Five Oaks Press 2015). She is currently in the MFA program at the University of Texas at El Paso and she co-edits the Texas Poetry Calendar for Dos Gatos Press. Learn more at www.allysonmwhipple.com ~~ THANKS Y'ALL! ~~
Voicemail Poems editors Logen Cure and Amy Saul-Zerby return for another episode of our podcast! Featuring poems by nico wilkinson, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, and Emily Page Wilson. Music by TrueKey (https://soundcloud.com/truekey). >> The deadline to submit to our Winter Issue is December 15: http://voicemailpoems.org/call >> Support us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/voicemailpoems >> Review us on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voicemail-poems/id847081003 More About the Poets: >> nico wilkinson is a spoken word artist, letterpress enthusiast, lover of plants, dogs, and colorado springs. their poems are usually about queerness, brain stuff, love, and its byproducts. learn more at http://nicothepoet.tumblr.com/ >> Learn more about Melissa Lozada-Oliva on Facebook at Melissa Lozada-Oliva Poetry, Twitter @elloMelissa, and on Button Poetry with her poem "Like Totally Whatever." >> Emily Page Wilson is an English Adjunct and Poetry MFA from UNC Wilmington. She is a Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets nominee. She wants to grow something wild & unruly. She tweets @Emmy_Golightly. ~~ THANKS Y'ALL! ~~
The Voicemail Poems podcast RETURNS! Hosted by editorial staffer Logen Cure, featuring poems by Alabama Stone, Emily Yin, and Ron Riekki. Music by TrueKey (https://soundcloud.com/truekey). Submit to Voicemail Poems Fall 2016. Deadline September 15th. More info at http://voicemailpoems.org
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